Big East Gets 8 Teams in AP Top 25

We’ve been saying it here at the Final Four Blog and they’ve been saying it in the mainstream sports media for a long time: the Big East is stacked this year. They’re like the Big 12 of football, only the basketball version. Just yesterday when the week’s AP Top 25 Poll was announced, the Big East proved that it was deserving of all the hype, landing a total of eight teams in the rankings, a record for the most teams from any one conference in the poll since its inception.

Big East Teams in the AP Top 25

#2. Connecticut
#3. Pittsburgh
#7. Notre Dame
#11. Louisville
#16. Syracuse
#17. Villanova
#20. Georgetown
#25 Marquette

Clearly this is a conference with a lot of good teams at the top, but what happens in conference play at the end of the season, when these teams are all playing one another, will really determine the men from the boys.

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